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I no longer support the Labour Party.
Closer to 70 than I would like.
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The Reform Christian Church:
Its patron saint is of course St. Judas Iscariot.

Let us pray: 🙏🏻
‘Our Nigel, which art in parliament,
Farage be thy Name;
Thy fascism come;
Thy will be done
in Dubai, as it is in Clacton.’

As for that Jesus bloke, he’s a bloody leftard.😤
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January.

www.trumpactiontracker.info

Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Of course, abandoning international human rights norms is as Far Right as it gets. What this is really about is dressing up Blue Labour's political strategy of appealing to Reform voters in clothing less likely to alienate everyone else.
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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January 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I wonder whether he’ll also boycott LBC if/when I ask exactly the same question about him…
Nigel Farage has gone to war with the BBC after a radio presenter suggested he had “a relationship when he was younger with Hitler,” vowing he would not speak to the national broadcaster until it apologized for its own past “racist” content.
Farage goes to war with the BBC over presenter’s ‘Hitler’ comment
The Reform UK leader says he will not speak to the national broadcaster until they apologize for all their own past racist coverage.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Oh good - another “immigration special” question time.

Broadcast from Dover.

With Zia Yusuf - of course🙄

I wonder what they’ll talk about?

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1/3
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”.

This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄

🧵
1/9
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Also in today’s data sets, the number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has risen by 13% on June data.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn

What gets more attention?

James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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🙈 Bribes
🙊 Racism
🙉 Hypocrisy
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Migrant barracks

From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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But more to the point - offering asylum to people fleeing war or torture or persecution is what decent nations do. It's what defines us. Without that it's just a race to the bottom.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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“This coalition staves off Time’s Up for next decade plus.” That’s what Steve Bannon told Jeffrey Epstein as they discussed MAGA strategy, crypto funding, midterm propaganda films and breaking into Europe END bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Read this thread laying out some of the astonishing emails between MAGA architect Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein across 2018 and 2019
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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"I've gotten pulled into the Brexit thing this morning with Nigel, Boris and Rees Mogg."

Then, in what appears to be a reference to Theresa May, Bannon tells Epstein

"The guys are trying to move on. may today / tomorrow…"

2018. As Gill took the bribes

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Ah the 1970s.

Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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My point here is not that crime, racism, terrorism, pollution etc were all worse in the 70s but that the period 1973-77 in particular was one of crisis, paranoia and hysteria. People were talking about Britain going bankrupt or collapsing into dictatorship. There was a national nervous breakdown
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM